CT Moore emailed me today about a 7 year old who got a letter from Obama, 5 days before the election. No doubt this only made the news because it involves the President Elect but what interested me was the kids age.
Apparently the blog was setup for a school assessment. A part of me is encouraged by a kid so young getting into blogging though a big part of me thinks that the kid should be out in the playground playing with other kids instead of being stuck inside working…
When you link to a page, Google will follow that link, index the keywords on it, and determine what keywords that page is relevant for. But it will also index the anchor text used in the link. This is why links that are descriptive are better then just using “click here.”
This is why when I blogged about the importance of internal linking last week, I touched upon the trade-off between linking to an affiliate page and linking to a previous post that itself links to an affiliate page. You can read…
I got a chance to speak to Jim Kukral yesterday about the launch of his new coaching website TheBizWebCoach.com. If you are looking for a coaching or consultation service, I’m sure you will enjoy this interview and I recommend checking TheBizWebCoach.com out

For those who don’t know you, can you introduce yourself and tell readers a little about your online experience.
I’m Jim Kukral. I’m the super web geek that has been blogging and doing business online for 12 years or so. Often I’m described as “that guy who knows what we need…
In yesterday’s post on how to make $12,000/year from your blog, we discussed free and paid blogging methods for marketing your blog.
Today’s post discusses how to decide which methods to use – free, paid or a combination of the two.
How to Choose Blog Marketing Methods to Bring in the Most Profit
The problem most bloggers have is that they literally have no money with which to market. But, you can still market using free methods. If you have absolutely no money to start, following is your course of action.
Note: The…
Today is the fifth week of our $1,500 Forum Competition.
This weeks prize is a copy of the fantastic Ninja Affiliate WordPress Plugin (worth $97), which has kindly been donated by Max Blog Press.

The Ninja Affiliate WordPress Plugin is an excellent plugin which lets you easily convert keywords on your blog into affiliate links. It is incredibly easy to use and should help every blog increase their affiliate commissions.
Competition Details
Here is this weeks question :
If you own ‘MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate’ then how will it help you to maximize your income from your blog…
Now, while $12,000 is mere pennies to some, it’s a good, part-time job for others. The whole point of this blog post is the following, “if you want to make money blogging, you have to treat it like a business.” And, the earlier you do so, the better.
This mean thinking about revenues, ad outlets, advertising budgets, etc. In short, everything you would put in a marketing plan for a brick-and-mortar business, for example, needs to be part of your blog marketing plan as well.
Here, we will take a look at…